What the dashboard is

The dashboard is the website where coordinators, officials and administrators work with the data that monitors and teachers collect in the field. The mobile apps record school visits, teacher observations and pupil assessments; the dashboard is where that information is reviewed, reported on, and where the system itself is set up.

When you log in, the top of the sidebar shows the Jolly Monitor logo, which always links back to your home page.

Who uses it

Different people see different things. Your account has a role, and the role decides which pages and buttons you get. There are four kinds of account:

• Administrators (Managers) set the system up: organisations, countries, projects, monitoring forms, questions, metrics and app versions.
• Country officials oversee a whole country: its projects, monitoring forms and impact.
• Project staff (coordinators) run a single project: they watch monitoring activity, manage their team, and drill into schools, teachers and results.
• Region officials are field monitors with a narrower view, focused on monitoring activity and training.

See Roles and what each one sees for the full breakdown.

How everything is organised

The dashboard mirrors the real structure of a monitoring programme. Each level contains the next:

Most of your time is spent moving up and down this chain: open a country, open one of its projects, open a district, open a school, and so on down to a single pupil assessment.

The last two links are optional. A teacher visit is always tied to the teacher who was observed, and it may also be tied to one of that school’s classes, but it does not have to be. A pupil assessment may be tied to a registered pupil, but it does not have to be: many assessments simply record the pupil’s name without linking to a pupil record.

Districts, or another name

The level below a project is shown using your country’s own term. The default is District, but in Nigeria it reads LGA (Local Government Area), and other countries may use Circuit or something else. This guide always calls it a district.

What you can do here

Depending on your role, the dashboard lets you:

• See dashboards of monitoring activity, training and impact, by country, project and district.
• Drill into individual schools, teachers, visits and pupil assessments, and correct their details.
• Build and run reports, explore data, and export to CSV or Excel.
• Send SMS and manage messaging groups.
• Set up the monitoring forms, questions and assessments that the apps use, and manage user accounts and app versions.

This guide is split the same way your access is. Start with Getting Started, then read Administration if you set the system up, or jump to For Coordinators & Officials if you run a project or a country.

Supported browsers

The dashboard supports recent versions of the major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari and similar). On older or uncommon browsers some pages may not work correctly.

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